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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course is an introduction to basic jewelry and metalworking processes and techniques, such as lost wax casting, raising, forging, fabrication, and lapidary work. Copper, brass, bronze, sterling silver, and semiprecious stones are commonly used; more expensive materials may be used if the student can afford them. Functional and non-functional objects may be made with an emphasis on craftsmanship and aesthetics. Designs from nature, art history, and contemporary culture are encouraged. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art. ART352 is a continuation of ART252.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This course is an overview of the influence of geography and culture on historical and contemporary human settlement patterns. It explores the interrelationships between climate, natural resources, cultural values, and technology in the evolution of a variety of land use patterns around the globe.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This is a lecture/studio course concerned with the elemental "building blocks" of architecture as well as with basic two-dimensional architectural graphic expression.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This is primarily a life drawing class. Working mainly from the human nude and from animals, the student is allowed to explore techniques and create drawings in dry and wet media. "Nature as teacher" is the academic approach in live model sessions; however, other drawing approaches, subject matter, and advanced techniques may be explored. Students will create, critique, and display original works of art. Prerequisite: ART101.
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1.00 Credits
Fall and spring semesters. 1 semester hour. This course is designed to provide the student with gallery experience. Responsibilities include preparing the gallery for exhibits, providing and collecting entry forms, cataloguing, making and placing labels for student show work, hanging the student show, organizing the artist's reception and advertising for the student show, helping with the hanging/ reception/advertising of all other exhibits including senior shows and those of guest artists, and working with art faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Fall semester. 3 semester hours. This course approaches creativity as a skill to develop, not as a magical gift bestowed on a few select people. The last three weeks of the course will be devoted to a large-scale project in an area chosen by the student at the time of registration. Two important elements of the course involve a specific style of journaling, and a weekly artist's date. Through the activities in this course, students will bring a higher degree of creativity to their daily lives. This course may be taken either at the lower-division or the upper-division level, but not both.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. Choosing from the prehistoric (as early as 30,000 BC) through the Gothic (as late as AD 1500), this course may explore such topics as Ancient Egypt, Bronze Age and Classical Greece, Imperial Rome, or Medieval Europe. Study focuses on art materials, techniques, style, pre-historical and historical context, aesthetics, and criticism. While traditional methods of studying art history are used (e.g. slide lectures, discussion, written exams, and papers), students are expected to authentically replicate an objet d'art from the studied historical periods as a major project. This course is also web-enhanced, with an interactive class website and required web research and project presentation.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. The topic for this course is chosen from Western artistic traditions ranging from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, the nineteenth, or the twentieth centuries. Study focuses on art materials, techniques, style, historical context, aesthetics, and criticism. While traditional methods of studying art history are used (e.g. slide lectures, discussion, written exams, and papers), students are expected to authentically replicate an objet d'art from the studied historical periods as a major project. This course is also web-enhanced, with an interactive class website and required web research and project presentation.
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3.00 Credits
On demand. 3 semester hours. This is a study of the peoples and their art from the non-European traditions. Topics vary and may include Native American cultures such as the Anasazi, Mogollon, or Mimbres and/or the art of Africa or Asia, among others. Study focuses on art materials, techniques, style, prehistorical and historical context, aesthetics, and criticism. While traditional methods of studying art history are used (e.g. slide lectures, discussion, written exams, and papers), students are expected to authentically replicate an objet d'art from the studied historical periods as a major project. This course is also web-enhanced, with an interactive class website and required web research and project presentation.
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3.00 Credits
Spring semester. 3 semester hours. This course focuses on the methods and materials for teaching art in the elementary and middle school. Prerequisite: admission to the teacher education program or permission of instructor.
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